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Diabetes, Alzheimer disease, and vascular dementia: a population-based neuropathologic study.

DOI

32

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0

References

2010

Year

Satu Ahtiluoto, Tuomo Polvikoski, Markku Peltonen, Alina Solomon, J. Tuomilehto, Bengt Winblad, Raimo Sulkava, Miia Kivipelto
PubMed

Abstract

Elderly patients with diabetes develop more extensive vascular pathology, which alone or together with AD-type pathology (particularly in APOE ε4 carriers) results in increased dementia risk.